for Electrical Contractors$500K to $3M · 2 to 12 trucks
Clarity at the flip of a switch.
Go ahead, flip it. You know you want to.
Accurate, up to date books that tell you when to hire the next tech and when to roll the next truck. Built for the owner who is elite in the field and drowning in the office.
Job costing · Margin analysis · KPIs
You have been running this shop in the dark.
Good work on the jobsite, guesswork in the office. That gap is where margin, cash and sleep all leak out.
The bank account is a mood ring
Healthy on the 1st, terrifying on the 15th. A balance tells you what is in the account today, not what is already committed to payroll, materials and the truck note.
Which work actually pays?
Is service carrying new construction, or the other way around? Without job costing you find out at tax time, a full year too late to fix it.
Hire, buy or wait?
Every big call gets made on instinct because the books are 60 days behind. Gut feel built the business. It will not scale it.
The office runs on your evenings
Ten hours in the field, then quotes and invoices at the kitchen table. You did not get your license for this, and it is not why you went out on your own.
Can you answer these five, right now?
What did your last finished job actually make, after labor, materials and overhead? See a real job broken down
What does one tech hour really cost you? Not the wage. The wage plus taxes, insurance, the truck and the hours you cannot bill. Run your number free
Which work makes you money: service, remodel or new construction? See margin by work type
How much finished work is sitting in unbilled change orders right now? What one missed order costs
What would you have to charge per hour to pay yourself like the owner, instead of the hardest-working tech on the crew?
If you just said no five times, nothing is wrong with you. Most owners between $500K and $3M can answer one, maybe two. You have a visibility problem, not a skill problem, and visibility is fixable. The shops that scale can answer all five by Friday lunch.
Every circuit, labeled and live.
No mystery breakers. This is the work that keeps your numbers current and your decisions easy.
Bookkeeping, reconciled and current
Transactions categorized in Xero or QuickBooks Online. Monthly on Single-Phase, weekly on Two-Phase.
Both plansMonthly financial reports
Balance Sheet, P&L and Cash Flow Statement with plain-English notes.
Both plansJob costing
What each job actually made after labor, materials and burden.
Two-PhaseMargin by work type
Service vs new construction vs remodel. See which work deserves more of your crew.
Two-PhaseKPI dashboard
Live visuals for revenue per tech, days to get paid, gross margin and more.
Two-PhaseUnbilled change orders
Tracked and flagged so finished work never quietly walks off the job.
Two-PhaseTax-ready books
Clean files your CPA can use without a cleanup invoice.
Both plansStrategy sessions
On call for the moments a decision is bigger than a dashboard.
$250 / hourSingle-Phase covers the essentials. Two-Phase adds job costing, the live dashboard and change order tracking. Strategy time is billed hourly, only when you want it. See both plans side by side
The four calls that build or break a shop.
Current books turn the biggest questions in your business into math instead of stress.
Can I afford the next tech?
Sample readout: GO in 6 weeks- Backlog hours vs crew capacity Schedule
- True loaded cost per tech Payroll
- Gross margin trend, last 90 days P&L
- Cash floor after two payrolls Cash flow
What should I actually charge per hour?
Sample readout: $121/hr to hit 12.5% net- Loaded cost per tech hour, all in Payroll
- Overhead spread across billable hours P&L
- Drive time, shop time and callbacks Schedule
- The profit target you pick on purpose Advisory
Why do good techs keep walking?
Sample readout: $18K per walkout- Pay vs market, level by level Benchmarks
- Performance pay tied to billable hours Comp design
- A ladder from helper to lead Advisory
- Pay that climbs as revenue climbs Comp design
When does truck #3 pay for itself?
Sample readout: Month 14- Revenue per truck, current fleet KPIs
- Finance vs cash purchase math Advisory
- Utilization needed to break even Job costing
- Insurance, fuel and wrap, all in Budget
Numbers on the wall, not in a drawer.
A dashboard you will actually look at, because every tile answers a question you already ask.
Sample dashboard: 6-truck shop, metro Atlanta, trailing twelve months. Yours gets built from your jobs, your crew and your numbers.
"They found a full year of expenses that had never made it into my books. Money I had already spent. My profit looked better than it really was, and I was paying tax on income I never made."
Two plans. Add what you need.
Flat monthly pricing. Anything one-time gets quoted before we start, so nothing lands on an invoice you did not agree to.
Month to month. No contracts, cancel anytime.
Single-Phase Plan
The power you need to stay grounded and tax-ready.
Starting at
- Monthly bookkeeping, reconciled and current
- Monthly Balance Sheet, P&L and Cash Flow Statement
- Books tax-ready year round
- Xero subscription included
Two-Phase Plan
Built for higher demand, faster growth and more complexity.
Starting at
- Everything in Single-Phase, plus:
- Weekly bookkeeping
- Job costing on every job
- Live dashboard: KPIs, margin by work type, P&L and Balance Sheet
- Unbilled change orders tracked and flagged
Add-ons
Priced after your free books review- Catch-up and cleanup bookkeeping
- Job costing setup
- P&L and KPIs per truck or location
- Company benchmarks
Strategy calls with Tim
$250 / hourNo retainer. Book time only when a decision is on the table.
Need a bigger service?
Multiple entities, bonding capacity, buying or selling a shop, or a CFO in the room every month. That gets scoped on a call, not sold off a page.
See full pricing detailMore than clean books.
Trusted network
Staffing, legal, marketing, IT and more. Vetted referrals that save you time and the cost of a bad pick.
Built for trades
Proven systems and reporting designed for trades businesses, not generic templates with your logo on top.
Fractional advisor
Support from someone who understands your industry and your growth stage, without a full-time salary.
Scale up or down
Flexibility to move between plans and add-ons as your business evolves. No lock-in, no dead weight.
Pay for advice when needed
Strategy time stays optional, so you only buy thinking when there is a decision worth thinking about.
Straight talk
Plain-English reviews and clear recommendations. You will never need a finance degree to use your own numbers.
Three steps to lights on.
Discovery call
30 minutes on your setup, your goals and whether we fit. No pitch deck, no pressure.
Cleanup and switch-on
We get your books accurate and current, wire up your dashboard and set the reporting rhythm.
The lights stay on
Books stay current, reports land on schedule and every big decision starts from real numbers.
The questions everyone asks.
I'm on QuickBooks. Do I have to switch?
No. We work in both QuickBooks Online and Xero, and we have clients on each. We prefer Xero because it automates more and scales cleaner, so we'll recommend it where it fits, but we meet you where your books live. If a move ever makes sense, we handle the migration. If you run on Xero, your subscription is included in our monthly fee. QuickBooks Online is not included and stays in your name.
I already have a CPA. Do I need this?
Keep your CPA. They file the return once a year. We keep the books current all year, so the return gets easier and every decision in between is made on real numbers. Most CPAs love getting a clean file from us.
My books are a mess. How long does cleanup take?
Under six months behind is usually one to two weeks. A year or two back runs three to five. We quote cleanup flat after the review call, so there is no meter running while we dig. See the full timeline table.
What happens on the free books review?
Thirty minutes on a screen share. We look at your current setup, point out what is costing you visibility and tell you straight whether we can help. You get a short written summary within two business days, and it is yours to keep either way.
I would not even know what to ask on a call.
That is normal, and it is our job, not yours. You bring the bank feed and the stress. We bring the questions. By the end of the call you will know your three biggest leaks and what fixing them is worth.
Do you only work with electricians?
Electrical contractors are our specialty. The job costing, KPIs and benchmarks all come from trades work. If you run an adjacent trade, bring it up on the call and we will tell you honestly if we are the right fit.
Do you work with my field software?
Almost certainly. We work in ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber, Service Fusion, JobNimbus, JobTread and BuildOps, and we know how to get the numbers out of each of them. You keep running the software your crew already knows. We make it talk to your books.
Do you run payroll?
Yes. Payroll is available alongside your bookkeeping, and running it together is what lets labor cost flow straight into job costing instead of landing as a lump sum somebody has to unpick later. If you have a prevailing wage or certified payroll situation, bring it up on the call and we will walk through what it takes.
My wife handles the books. Are you replacing her?
Only if she wants us to. In most shops this size the answer is the opposite. She has been carrying the data entry, the bill runs and the chasing on top of everything else, usually at night. We take that off her plate and she keeps the parts worth keeping: the oversight, the relationships, and the decisions she makes with you. Some of our best working relationships run straight through the owner's spouse.
If I leave, do I lose my books?
No. The file is yours. If you are on the Xero subscription we provide, we transfer it into your name and hand it over. We do not hold anyone's books hostage and we are not going to make leaving harder than joining. Month to month, no contracts.
How often do I actually talk to a human?
Your reporting lands once a month, and what is in it depends on your plan. Day to day questions go to us by email or through your client portal. When you want real strategy time with Tim, you book it and it is billed at $250 an hour, so you are never paying a retainer for advice you did not ask for.
The people behind your numbers.
Tim Bryant
Founder, Livewire Financial
I've spent years around electrical contractors, and I keep seeing the same trap. Demand is high, so a good shop grows fast. But as the work grows, overhead and material costs grow with it, and if the pricing does not keep up, margin quietly shrinks while revenue climbs. More work, same money at the end of the year.
You cannot fix what you cannot see, and most shops are flying sixty days blind. So that is what Livewire is built to give you: your books kept accurate and current, turned into a live dashboard. You see your margins, your material and labor costs as a percentage of revenue, and what your net income is really doing, in time to act on it.
And when a call is bigger than a dashboard, you have me. The same systems I run for bigger companies sit behind your numbers, and the person making those calls for them is the one working through yours with you. Reach me hourly, only when you need it: whether you can afford the next hire, a truck purchase, or a comp plan that fits the person and still pays right. No full-time CFO salary, no meter running the rest of the time.
Alexandra Nelson
Client Operations Specialist
Alexandra runs the daily work on your account: keeping your books accurate and current, staying on top of bills and payments, and chasing down anything that does not add up. She came up through accounting and is working toward her ACCA qualification, and she is relentless about two things, getting the numbers right and making them easy to understand.
She works in the background so you do not have to think about it. If she needs something from you she will reach out. Otherwise the routine work is just handled and nothing slips through the cracks, so you can rest easy at night knowing your books and job costs are in good hands.
See your business with the lights on.
One 30-minute call. We look at your current books, show you where the margin is hiding and tell you straight if we can help.
No contracts. Month to month. If we are not the fit, we will say so on the call.